Third Ministry of Machine Building
In September 1963, the government decided to establish the Ministry of Aviation Industry ( it was designated as the Third Ministry of Machine Building), and Sun Zhiyuan was appointed the. Minister and Liu Ding, Wu Yongfeng and Duan Zijun Vice Ministers. A leading cadres meeting of enterprises of aviation industry was held and presided over by newly formed Ministry leadership in early 1964. At that meeting, situation was analysed comprehensively and achievements during the three years of implementing the four words policy were affirmed. But it was pointed out that the achievements were just a beginning which could only be regarded as one step in the cause of climbing to the top; status of aviation industry was far behind the need of constructions of national defence and economy.
The meeting discussed the plan of future construction and development, established the strategic objective from copy - production to design and development, decided to continue to implement the four words policy in 1964 and 1965 and to create conditions and lay good foundation for the long term development by working in a down-to-earth way according to the requirement of "constructing the Chinese People's Air Force to meet the requirement of national economic development and unceasingly provide modernized aviation technical equipment." After the meeting, the Minister and Vice Ministers headed cadres in the ministry to each enterprise and institute to explain the decisions to all cadres and workers, organized joint battles of trial production of new aircraft and batch production of a variety of aircraft and unfolded the movement of learning from Daqing and learning from models. The broad workers and staff had clear target ahead of them and actively plunged themselves into production construction. From 1964 to 1966, before the breaking out of the " Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" , the whole industry had developed in a healthy way with everything in good order.
In the meantime, development of new missiles and aircraft had got exciting progress. "PL-1" air to air missile, "Red Flag-1" ground to air missile, "SY-1" ground to ship missile and rocket engine for ground to ground missile were all successfully trial manufactured and batch produced consecutively in 1963, 1964 and 1966, which ended the history of having no missiles in China. When the heroic people's army were equipped with missiles, it was just like a tiger that had got wings, and became a stronger peace keeping force. Having realized high quality production of J-6, all weather high subsonic fighter J-5A and two times of sound speed, high altitude high speed fighter J-7 were successfully trial produced in 1964 and 1966 respectively; the attack aircraft Q-5 whose design was started by China itself in 1958 had reached preliminary design certification and was put into batch production in 1965; light jet bomber H-5 was flight tested in 1965 as well. Successful development of all those aircraft and missiles reflected the strong will of workers and staff of aviation industry to develop new aircraft themselves and their ever increasing technical capability.
Batch productions of high quality aircraft and missiles were carried out successfully as well. Output of J-6 aircraft and "Red Flag-1" missile increased rapidly and their annual production jumped to a new level in 1965. During three years from 1963 to 1965, 1,055 various, kind of high quality aircraft, 3,081 engines were produced and delivered; and missiles were batch produced as well, which greatly improved the armed forces equipment and strengthened the capability of national defence. The total industrial output value of the industry in 1965 was 1.6 times that of 1960. All kinds of economic and technical norms reached the best level ever since the establishment of aviation industry until 1966. This was really a new upsurge in the development of aviation industry.
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